The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-12-09
CHEATED BY HIS BROKER.
How tho Most Notorious Marooncr of IN,
Last Century Lost All I3fs Treasure.

First OF all upon the list of pirate.
stands the bold Captain Avary, one O.
the institutors of Narrowing. Him we
see but dimly. half hidden by the
glamouring mists of legend and tradi
ton. Others who came afterward out.
stripped him far enough In their do
ings, but he stands pre-eminent as the
nrst OF marooners Of whom actual his.
tory has been handed down to us of the
present day.
When the English. Ditcn and Span
ish entered into IN alliance to suppress
buccaneering in the West Indies. Ger
tain WORTHLESS of Bristol, in Old Ell
gland. fitted out two vessels 10 assist
IN this laudable project; for doubtless
B istol trade suffered smartly from the
Morgans and the l. 0lonoises Of that
old time. One of these vessels was
named the Duke. of which certain
Captain G .on was the commander
and Avary the mate.
Away they sailed to the West t.
dies, and there Avary became i'm.
pressed by the advantages offered by
piracy. and by the amount of good
things that were to be gained by very
little striving.
One night the captain (who was one
OF those fellows nightly addicted TO
runch). instead OF going ashore 10 sat.
urate himself at the ordinary. had his
drink in his cabin in private. While
he lay snoring away he effec's of his
rum In the cabin. Ayary and a few
other conspirators heavcd the anchor
very leisurely and sailed out OF the
harbor Of C3runna. and through the
midst Of the allied fleet riding at an
chor in the darkness.
By and by, when the morning came
the captain vas awakened By the.
pitching and tossing OF the vessel
the rattle and clatter OF the tackle
overhead. and the noise of footsteps
passing and repassing hithor and
tliiher across the deck.
What's the matterP' bawls the
captain from his berth.
Nothing says Avafy. coolly.
Something's the matter with the
ship. says the captain. Does she
driver What wealhtr is itg'
oh. no. says Avaryi I'VE are al
sea-"
..At seaP"
Come. Gomez says Avary; .Tn
tell you; you must know that I'm the
captain of the ship now. aud you
must be packing from this here cabin.
We are bound TO Madagascar. to make
all of our fortunes. AMI If you're n
mind to ship for the cruiss whv. wen
be glad TO have you. If you will be
sober n mind your own Business; II
not. there is a boat alongside. and I'll
have you set ashore.
The poor half-spsy captain had no
relish to go a-pirating un Ter the COM
mand of his back-sliiing ma g, so out
of the ship he bundled. aud away he
rowed with four or five of the crew.
who. like him. refused TO join with
their jolly shipma es-
The rest Of them sailed away to the
East Iidics- On his way Avary
picked up couple of like kind with
himself-two sloops of Madagascar
With th Sc he sailed away to the coast
of India. and for time his name was
lost in the obscuri.y of uncertain his
tory. Bat only for time. for sud-
denly 1t famed out in blaze of glory.
1t was reported that vessel belong
ing TO the Great Mognl. laden with
treasure and bearing the molarch's 5
own daughter upon holy pilgrimage
TO nj ,cca Chey being Mohammelans)
had fallen in with the pirates. and
af er short resistance had been sur
rendered. with the danisel. her court
and all the diamonds. pears, silk
silver and god aboard. It was
rumor,d that the Great Mogul. raging
at the insult offered to him through his
own flesh and blood. had threatened to
wipe out of existence the few English
settlements scattered along the coast;
whereat the honorable East India Com
pany was in pretty s.a of fuss aud
feathers. Rumor. growing with the
telling. has it that Avary is going to
marry the Indian Princess. willy-nilly.
and will turn Rajah and eschew pirac,
as indecent As for the treasure it.
self. there is no end to the extent to
which it grew as 1t passed from mouth
TO mouth.
Cracking the nut of roma ce and
exaggeration, we come to the kernel
of the story-that Avary did fall in
with an Indian vessel laden with grea
treasure (and possibly with tho Mo-
gul's daughter). which he captured.
and thereby gaine.l a vast prize.
Having concluded that he had earned
enough money by the trade he had un-
dertaken, he determined 10 retire
and live decently for the rest of his
| fe upon what ho had already
gained.
At first Avary had great part of a
setts, and had that little town been
une whit less bleak and forbidding, il
might have had. the ho or of being
The home of this famous man. As il
was. he did not like the looks of it, so
he sailed away to the eastward. to Ire
land, where he settled himself ut Bid
deford, in hopes of an easy life of it for
the rest of his days.
Here he founl himself the possessor
of plentiful stock of jewels. such as
pearls, diamonds, rubies, ETC., but
with hard score of honest farthings
to jingle in his breeches pocket. H.
consulted with certain merchant of
Bristol concerning the disposal of the
stones-a fellow not much moro
cleanly in his habits Of honesty than
Avary himself This worthy under
took to act as Avary's broker OF he
marched with the jewels, and that was
the last that the pirate saw of hi,
Indian treasure. -HoUa d Pyle. in
Hdrper's MGgdziae.